Comment by dathinab

> with similar hardware provenance

no not at all Pine64 hardware is pretty crap (performance wise, very normal independent of the OS at that price point)

Like you are comparing things like 3GB LPDDR3 SDRAM (Pine64) to 6GB LPDDR4X which is world apart (not only does it move from a "very tight on memory" to "somewhat acceptable memory" (very big deal) it also is much faster (~2x).

Similar on the Pine64 you have 4 old little cores here you have 2 big + 6 little cores and all more modern (end even just the little cores are faster when comparing one core with another, ignoring that you have 2 more little cores and 2 big cores).

Storage moves from a quite tight 32 GiB (through I guess if you only do stuff like mail it might be enough) to a likely more then enough 128GiB (also faster).

Noticeable faster GPU too, I guess.

And way better camera, at least by by numbers.

So not comparable at all.

But what matters most is not the absolute differences but moving it from a "so tight on RAM,CPU,GPU,Storage that you run all times into problems" to a "enough for all common tasks". I.e. from you need micro optimized apps for it to work nice to yes it works if your app is imperfect territory. And that is a pretty big deal.

But also lets be realistic. Atm. _any_ Linux Phone is a pure enthusiast product balancing various problems (price, small production lines, only android diver problems, proprietary blob problems etc.). And many of the enthusiast earn enough money to afford a 500$ toy, through maybe just rarely and with thinking twice about it.